Congo's abandoned miners: The Democratic Republic of Congo will hold its first general election since 1960 at the end of this month, a sign that peace may be returning after civil and regional wars that killed three million people between 1997 and 2003. The European Union's willingness to send troops to oversee the election is an indication of the value the world sets on the DRC's mineral resources, which it previously looted. Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
